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The 10-year note yield, considered the benchmark for government bond yields, has leaped about 17 basis points since the Federal Open Market Committee meeting of Sept. 17-18 — reversing what had ...
Inflation (Consumer price index, or CPI): up 2.4% from a year ago, a slight slowdown from 2.5% during the Fed’s last meeting CPI, excluding food and energy: 3.3%, up from 3.2%
The bond yield surge sparked a sell-off in fast-growing tech stocks, with the Nasdaq 100 index down about 1%. Slok recalled the situation in the UK that slammed markets in 2022.
The corporate debt bubble is the large increase in corporate bonds, excluding that of financial institutions, following the financial crisis of 2007–08.Global corporate debt rose from 84% of gross world product in 2009 to 92% in 2019, or about $72 trillion.
The 1994 bond market crisis, or Great Bond Massacre, was a sudden drop in bond market prices across the developed world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It began in Japan and the United States (US), and spread through the rest of the world. [ 3 ]
The term "Greenspan put" is a play on the term put option, which is a financial instrument that creates a contractual obligation giving its holder the right to sell an asset at a particular price to a counterparty, regardless of the prevailing market price of the asset, thus providing a measure of insurance to the holder of the put against falls in the price of the asset.
3 key reasons bond prices move up and down. There are three primary factors that drive movements in bond prices: the movement of prevailing interest rates, the ability of the issuer to meet the ...
The last five years have taken bond investors on a wild ride. In 2020, the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates near zero, to keep a panicking economy afloat. Fast-forward to 2022, when rates ...